The Name Game

Decades ago, I had a friend who was getting divorced.   She had taken his name when she’d gotten married, despite her feminist principles.  When she was queried as to why she’d done that, she said, quite simply, “My maiden name was worse.”

As the divorce was getting closer to being finalized, she decided that in addition to no longer wishing to have her husband, she didn’t want his name either.  Clear that she didn’t want to reach back to her maiden name, she decided she’d pick Read more